Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

- Bristol, Claude M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.